G8 leaders look to head off euro zone crisis |
- G8 leaders look to head off euro zone crisis
- Retired officials urge China's ruling party to come clean
- Queen E to rub shoulders with Bahraini king and other despots
- VIDEO: Malawi babies who are fighting to grow
- VIDEO: Facebook shares due to go on sale
- Nelfi Ibanez: a pioneer in Latino soccer
- China bars blind dissident's family choice of lawyers
- Phase 2 of East Coast Expressway opens
- Lat Am warned of middle income trap
- 152 million 3G users in China
- Chicago summit seeks to deliver on promises to renew NATO
- UNDP to provide US$144m aid to Myanmar
- 'Queen of Disco' Donna Summer dies, aged 63
- Obama eases investment curbs on Myanmar, names ambassador
- India's poorest turn video journalists to fill news gap
- Asia's private museums blaze new trails in art world
- Philippines stops protest trip to disputed shoal
- Obama, Hollande to press euro crisis remedies at G8
- Trayvon evidence fails to answer who screamed for help
- Vietnam passenger bus crash kills 34, dozens injured
| G8 leaders look to head off euro zone crisis Posted: 18 May 2012 12:15 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of major industrial economies meet this weekend to try to head off a full-blown crisis in Europe where fears are growing that Greece could leave the euro zone bloc, threatening the future of the common currency. 
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| Retired officials urge China's ruling party to come clean Posted: 17 May 2012 11:58 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - Three retired Chinese Communist Party officials issued a call on Friday for leaders to disclose their family wealth before a looming succession, warning that a scandal over the fallen politician Bo Xilai has exposed dangerous abuses of power. 
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| Queen E to rub shoulders with Bahraini king and other despots Posted: 18 May 2012 12:56 AM PDT  LONDON, May 18: The King of Bahrain, whose regime has been accused of brutally suppressing pro-democracy demonstrations, will have lunch with Queen Elizabeth II today in celebration of her Diamond Jubilee.
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| VIDEO: Malawi babies who are fighting to grow Posted: 17 May 2012 10:07 PM PDT Nearly half of babies in Malawi are affeced by stunted growth because of malnutrition.
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| VIDEO: Facebook shares due to go on sale Posted: 18 May 2012 12:19 AM PDT One of the biggest flotations ever seen on world stock markets will take place today when shares in the social networking site Facebook go on sale.
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| Nelfi Ibanez: a pioneer in Latino soccer Posted: 17 May 2012 11:49 PM PDT "Let's go, show some strength! Don't stop, keep up the pressure!" A woman's voice rings out across a Lima soccer field, urging the male players to work and train ever harder.
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| China bars blind dissident's family choice of lawyers Posted: 17 May 2012 11:20 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an attempt to manipulate a trial that has focused world attention on China's human rights. 
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| Phase 2 of East Coast Expressway opens Posted: 17 May 2012 10:52 PM PDT The second phase of the East Coast Expressway (LPT 2) from Ajil interchange to Telemung in Terengganu will be opened to traffic starting 10am tomorrow.
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| Lat Am warned of middle income trap Posted: 17 May 2012 10:51 PM PDT In what would be his last speech as part of the organisation, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank Justin Lin held a conference at the UN's Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (ECLAC) here.
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| Posted: 17 May 2012 10:39 PM PDT China's 3G users reached 152 million by the end of March, almost a 10-fold increase from two years ago, according to figures released Thursday by the the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
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| Chicago summit seeks to deliver on promises to renew NATO Posted: 17 May 2012 10:38 PM PDT When NATO leaders meet again in Chicago on May 20-21, they will focus on exit from Afghanistan, capacity-building of their alliance in a smart way and building a network of partnership.
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| UNDP to provide US$144m aid to Myanmar Posted: 17 May 2012 10:37 PM PDT The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has offered to provide 144 million U.S. dollars' aid to Myanmar to implement a three-year project starting 2013, official media reported Friday.
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| 'Queen of Disco' Donna Summer dies, aged 63 Posted: 17 May 2012 10:30 PM PDT Grammy-winning disco legend Donna Summer, who topped the charts repeatedly in the 1970s and 80s with raunchy hits like "Love to Love You Baby" and "Hot Stuff," died Thursday aged 63.
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| Obama eases investment curbs on Myanmar, names ambassador Posted: 17 May 2012 10:29 PM PDT President Barack Obama Thursday eased investment sanctions on Myanmar and named the first US ambassador to the country in 22 years, seeking to reward an easing of "iron fist" rule.
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| India's poorest turn video journalists to fill news gap Posted: 17 May 2012 10:28 PM PDT One video shows police beating protesters with sticks. Another shows two lifeless, dirty bodies dragged from their workplace in the sewers. In a third, a man explains why his hand was slashed.
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| Asia's private museums blaze new trails in art world Posted: 17 May 2012 10:26 PM PDT A boom in private museums funded by wealthy collectors is transforming the artistic landscape in Asia, and filling the cultural vacuum left by penny-pinching governments, experts say.
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| Philippines stops protest trip to disputed shoal Posted: 17 May 2012 10:26 PM PDT Philippine President Benigno Aquino told protesters to abort plans to sail Friday to a disputed South China Sea shoal also claimed by China, the leader of the group said.
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| Obama, Hollande to press euro crisis remedies at G8 Posted: 17 May 2012 10:05 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will seek to cement a bond with France's new leader at the White House on Friday before heading to Camp David for a G8 summit where he is set to press Europe to do more to fix the region's deepening economic crisis. 
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| Trayvon evidence fails to answer who screamed for help Posted: 17 May 2012 09:50 PM PDT ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - An FBI expert found crucial evidence in the Trayvon Martin case was inconclusive, saying it was impossible to tell if the voice screaming for help belonged to the black Florida teenager or his shooter George Zimmerman just before the neighbourhood watch captain pulled the trigger. 
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| Vietnam passenger bus crash kills 34, dozens injured Posted: 17 May 2012 09:10 PM PDT HANOI (Reuters) - A passenger bus plunged into a river in Vietnam's Central Highlands at night killing 34 people and injuring at least 25 others, state-run newspapers reported on Friday. 
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